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Frontenac to lose one big name but gain three

By Deb Peterson

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

05/10/2008





SHOPPING NIRVANA: Three luxury retailers will make their debuts soon on the main level of Plaza Frontenac. Juicy Couture and Kate Spade are both newcomers to our town. Juicy plans to open in November; Kate Spade next spring. Also opening a third local store at Frontenac is Teavana, a specialty retailer offering more than 100 varieties of loose-leaf teas and tea sets, including handcrafted Japanese cast iron, famous Chinese Yixing clay pots and fine bone china. Teavana plans to open in September. Juicy Couture is a California fashion phenomenon that will feature a full range of women's and children's clothing and accessories. Kate Spade is an upscale brand from the Liz Claiborne line. The store here will offer shoes, handbags, apparel, fragrances and accessories. The three new stores will be added to Frontenac's existing collection of more than 40 retailers, including anchors Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, restaurants and a movie theater. Kate Spade and Juicy will replace Talbots Kids, which has been at Frontenac since 1995 and plans to close in the fall. Teavana will be adjacent to Canyon Cafe and the Strauss-Peyton Gallery, which will be relocated within the shopping center. Privately held Davis Street Land Co. owns Frontenac. The principals of the company are responsible for such properties as Orland Park Crossing in Orland Park, Ill.; Renaissance Place in Highland Park, Ill.; the Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, Tenn.; and the Gardens on El Paseo in Palm Desert, Calif. It is also developing the Meadows at Lake Saint Louis.

Arch City wrote:Seems like great additions. Wonder what happened to Talbot Kids? Poor sales?

FromTheLou wrote:I found plans on the Frontenac city website for an expanded Plaza Frontenac in the site of the Shriners Hospital. Once the hospital moves to the CWE, the land will be used as an extension of Plaza Frontenac.

BJC HealthCare is eyeing the Shriners Hospital property in Frontenac.



The health-care system, St. Louis' largest employer, is evaluating whether the 15-acre property at 2001 S. Lindbergh Blvd. could be used for future development, according to a planning document obtained by the Business Journal. The property, which is just south of Highway 40 and next to the Plaza Frontenac shopping mall, could cost an estimated $12 million, according to the BJC scenario planning report.



BJC spokeswoman June Fowler declined to comment about the health-care system's interest in the Shriners site: "We're always looking at property," she said.

Arch City wrote:

ChesterfieldKid03 wrote:I have heard that Burberry is looking to take the spot that Talbot Mens is currently in at Plaza Frontenac.

Thanks for your information.



And I think it's well past time that Burberry entered the St. Louis market. At this rate, Plaza Frontenac might have to add an addition.

By Joe Whittington

SPECIAL TO THE POST-DISPATCH

07/10/2008



COLORFUL ADDITION: High-fashion accessories store Hermès will open a 1,700-square-foot store in Plaza Frontenac in the fall of 2009.



Sources and a Davis Street Land Co. (which owns the mall) leasing map show the new tenant will go in where the Crane & Co. Paper Makers is. Workers at Crane's have only heard rumors of that.



"We are always talking with Crane, who has been a longtime tenant," said shopping center General Manager David Freeburg, who indicated he was not familiar with the leasing layout in question.



There are only 25 of these stores in the United States, and they are in such high-end shopping meccas as South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif.; Beverly Hills, Calif.; Bal Harbour, Fla.; the Ala Moana Center in Hawaii; and Americana Man­hasset on Long Island.



Among other new tenants coming to the shopping center in 2009 are specialty retailers MAC cosmetics, Crewcuts children's clothes by J. Crew, Juicy Couture and Kate Spade.